Innovate: Vermont companies news

Dec. 5, 2012

• FairPoint Communications has been awarded a four-year contract worth more than $16 million to support the needs of the New England Telehealth Consortium. Under the contract, FairPoint will provide Carrier Ethernet Services to more than 400 health care sites in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

• Policy Inspector, Inc. of Stowe has added a free veterans insurance policy search with each of its policy inspections. A policy inspection searches nearly 500 of the largest life insurance companies in the nation in search of its customers’ unclaimed life insurance and annuity policies.

• The National Gardening Association is moving its national headquarters from South Burlington to Williston, refocusing its efforts on broader initiatives that drive systemic change in farm-to-table and garden-to-cafeteria initiatives. The association will transfer oversight and maintenance of Wheeler Park, 14-acres of botanical and community gardens, back to the City of South Burlington.

• Addison County Home Health & Hospice in Middlebury has been named a Top Agency of the 2012 HomeCare Elite, a compilation of the top performing home health agencies in the United States. HomeCare Elite identifies the top 25 percent of Medicare-certified agencies.

• Evolution (by ISystems), a software company based in Burlington and serving the independent payroll industry, has acquired the BureauLink and myHRAdmin business applications from HRAnswerLink, Inc. HRAnswerLink offers SaaS-based, customer-branded human resource services to more than 50,000 small and mid-sized businesses. The newly acquired products will be managed by evoPro Solutions a division of Evolution based in Sarasota, Fla.

• NativeEnergy, a provider of carbon offsets based in Burlington, is launching a program that combines clean water with carbon reductions in Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, and other developing countries. Credits are now available from the Kenya Clean Water Project, which will reduce 100,000 tons of greenhouse gas pollution. All projects are being certified to the Gold Standard, the leading international carbon offset standard.

• DEW Construction of Williston has won Engineering News Record’s 2012 Best Projects competition in the retail-hospitality category for the New York region for their work as construction manager for Hotel Jay and Pump House Waterpark at Jay Peak Resort. Engineering News Record is a national trade magazine published weekly by McGraw Hill.